| 单词 | spermatophore | 
| 释义 | spermatophoren. 1.  Biology. In certain of the lower forms of animal life, a structure containing a compact mass of spermatozoa. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > 			[noun]		 > sperm > sperm cell > specific varieties spermatophore1849 sperm-aster1904 1849–52    Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV.  i. 485/1  				These fibres in the Cephalopods are..surrounded..by peculiar sack-like enclosures or Spermatophores. 1870    G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 108  				A packet of spermatozoa, aggregated in their passage along the convolutions of the vasa deferentia into the so-called ‘spermatophore’. 1880    T. H. Huxley Crayfish 351  				The filaments are in fact tubular spermatophores.  2.  Botany. A part of the spermogonium of lichens or fungi, on which the spermatia are borne. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > 			[noun]		 > type of > spermatium or spermogonium spermatium1856 spermogone1856 spermogonium1857 spermagonium1861 spermatogonium1861 spermatophore1861 spermagone1876 1861    R. Bentley Man. Bot.  i. v. 384  				The spermagonium, when mature, has its interior filled with a number of bodies called spermatia..raised on stalks, termed spermatophores. Derivatives  spermatoˈphoric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > 			[adjective]		 > sperm > spermatophore spermatophoric1959 1959    W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. xii. 475  				[In the common squid] peculiarly complicated organs, the spermatophoric organs and sacs, receive the sperm from the vas deferens, pack them into bundles, and cover them with a tunic..before their ejection as spermatophores by the penis. 1977    M. J.  & J. Wells in  Giese  & Pearse Reproduction Marine Invertebrates IV. vi. 297  				In..the wider initial section of the first spermatophoric gland, the sperm are embedded in a mucin secretion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < | 
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